Though the Kalyanpur assembly constituency had been electing BJP’s Prem Lata Katiyar since 1991, it went in favour of the Samajwadi Party in the last assembly election in 2012. In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP candidate from the Akbarpur Lok Sabha constituency, Devendra Singh (Bhole Singh), had secured a massive lead of 89421votes over his nearest Congress rival Rajaram Pal in the Kalyanpur assembly segment.